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Test 2 · ★★★ · Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tar…

«I grow at a reasonable pace, not in that ridiculous fashion.» What is the Dormouse's point?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I, point, Dormouse · What happens: grow, be, point · To what, where: ridiculous fashion

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 22 «Alice in Wonderland, chapter XI, part 2: Who Stole the Tarts? (the Hatter, the cook and a surprise witness)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: «I grow at a reasonable pace, not in that ridiculous fashion.»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 pace	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pace	det
6	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pace	amod
7	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fashion	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fashion	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 fashion	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 fashion	det
12	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fashion	amod
13	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow in a quote	present	I			that ridiculous fashion		at a reasonable pace	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: What is the Dormouse's point?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Dormouse	det
4	Dormouse	Dormouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 point	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Dormouse	case
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Dormouse's point						tree rules
2	point		the Dormouse						nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1

He grows fast, unlike Alice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 grows	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Alice	punct
5	unlike	unlike	ADP	_	6 Alice	case
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	He					unlike Alice; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Growing is silly, and nobody should grow in court, so Alice must leave at once

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Growing	growing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 silly	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 silly	cop
3	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grow	cc
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 grow	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 silly	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 court	case
10	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 leave	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 leave	advmod
13	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 leave	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 leave	aux
15	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 silly	parataxis
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 leave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Growing					silly property	tree rules
2	grow	should	nobody			court			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in court=Location
3	leave	must	Alice						vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at once=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Everyone grows, but slowly — not suddenly like Alice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 slowly	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 slowly	cc
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
6	—	-	PUNCT	_	8 suddenly	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 suddenly	advmod
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 Alice	case
10	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 suddenly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Everyone					slowly, suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Alice grows slowly, like everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 grows	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everyone	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Alice					like everyone; slowly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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